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Even as President Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” reduced funds for public schools, it also introduced a tax credit scholarship program that could potentially bring billions into the nation’s K-12 schools, albeit primarily through private schools.

The program would allow individual Americans to donate up to $1,700 to nonprofits and get a dollar-to-dollar tax break on their federal income taxes. The nonprofit would then dole out the money it raised in the form of scho

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